سورة القلم، الآية ٤٦
أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ ٤٦
am tasaluhum ajran fahum min maghramin muth'qalūna
Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
Verse 46 of Surah Al-Qalam (68:46), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 566 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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O Messenger! Do you seek a reward from them for what you invite them towards, due to which they are greatly burdened, being the cause of their turning away from you? The reality is the opposite: you do not seek any reward from them; so what stops them from following you?
Or are you asking them for a reward, so they find it too burdensome?
Or is it that you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) ask them a wage, so that they are heavily burdened with debt?
Or dost thou (Muhammad) ask a fee from them so that they are heavily taxed?
Or is it that thou dost ask them for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-
Or do you ask from them a reward, so that they are burdened with debt?
Or even do you ask them for a reward so they are weighed down with heavy fines?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ
Or do you, [O Muḥammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?
